[Pkg-octave-devel] Operation to recruit new contributors

[Thomas Weber]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 10:52:47AM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le mercredi 26 février 2014 à 22:59 +0100, Thomas Weber a écrit :
> 
> > not sure if you are aware of this:
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2014/02/msg00009.html
> > 
> > Do we have something that would fit this?
> 
> This is an interesting initiative.
> 
> Looking at our wiki page, the most obvious project that we can propose
> is to package a few Octave Forge extensions (targeting the most
> active/recent ones). It's a quite easy task given our existing
> infrastructure, maybe too easy, I don't know. But this can be a good
> entry point for someone who is interested in contributing to the Debian
> and Octave communities.
> 
> What do you think?

Deadline was 10 March; we might be able to get something in if we do it
immediately. My original thought was that packaging image-aquisition[1]
might be reasonable. It has an extensive testsuite with a dummy driver,
so one can package it even without specialised hardware. Of course,
having the hardware would be good.
As a bonus, we might want to investigate the possibilites of having
reportbug templates[2] for this package - such a template could include
the information asked for at [3].

Now, the main problem for me is that I don't have much time right now.
This should be better in April, but the project might still need more
than 15 hours.

[1] http://wiki.octave.org/Image_acquisition_package
[2] /usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.developers.gz
[3] http://wiki.octave.org/Image_acquisition_package#Reporting_bugs

	Thomas